Transcript Power Point - Sequoya Elementary APT

Pieter Bruegel
(1527?-1569)
Kindergarten Art in the
Classroom
The Renaissance
• In the early 1500s,
painters mostly
painted portraits
• People were painted
to look soft and
round, ‘angelic’
• Many paintings were
“Madonnas”,
paintings of Mary &
Jesus
Raphael’s Tempi Madonna, 1508
Bruegel Studies Painting
• Pieter Bruegel grew
up in Belgium
• He traveled to Italy
in 1552 to study
painting
• In 1553 he moved to
Antwerp and started
painting landscapes
resembling what
he’d seen in his
travels
• In his paintings he
depicted peasants
doing everyday
activities
The Wedding Feast, 1568
Netherlandish Proverbs
• What is a proverb?
• There are over 100 proverbs in this
painting, many of which are still in use
today.
• Can you find any?
Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559
Children’s Games
• How many children do you think are in this
painting?
• How many different games are painted
here?
• Are any of the games painted games you
still play?
Children’s Games, 1560
The Project
• What games do you play when you go out
for recess?
• Draw & color yourself playing one of those
games or doing a play activity.
• Cut out the drawing of yourself playing.
We will take all of the drawings and glue
them onto a background to make our own
version of Bruegel’s Children’s Games
painting.